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[TamerVirus]

Yes, yes Mass Media are also bums but that's automatically assumed

[Il Palazzo]

No, John. You are the bums.

[TamerVirus]

NO U

[Greiger]

I am happy that I clicked this thread and went to the last page to simply get a completely out of context "NO U".

The little things amuse me.

[Max™]

Hrrrm, we dipped down to 373 deaths in one day and we're right back up near a thousand again: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#nav-yesterday

[Starver]

That was Sunday 7th. The "deaths per day" bar-graph clearly shows a recurring Weekend Effect for pretty much all the shown periods. (Even the equivalent Cases graph, so it isn't just coroner's reporting/whatever that is prone to be tardy during a weekend, probably shuffling reported stats into Mondays and later.)

A rolling 7-day average seems to be the usually useful figure. It's ~3.5 day (further) lag to actual game-changing events, either way, but effectively removes the blips/squelches inherent in the human observation/recording cycle.14-day R.A. would do that more, but also is less responsive, meaning an additional week (to base mean incubation period) would pass before you could be sure you see the results of an unlock-back-up/pool-party/rainy weather keeping everyone in their own homes instead of attending communal BBQs.

[McTraveller]

Hahahah the attempt to stop Coronavirus has now caused so many people to forego measles vaccinations that it's a thing again.

Hahahahhaahaha.... *sob*

[Frumple]

Wasn't that showing up like last year or something? Anti-vax horseshit had already brought measles cases back prior to the crow plague kicking off, iirc.

[McTraveller]

No, this is not the anti-vax stuff. This is now to the tune of like 200M people who just can't get the vaccines, not the loons who choose not to get it.

[Doomblade187]

No, this is not the anti-vax stuff. This is now to the tune of like 200M people who just can't get the vaccines, not the loons who choose not to get it.

Uh, 200 million would be 1/2-2/3 of the US population, is this an international number?

[TamerVirus]

The UK is coming out saying that a cheap steroid, Dexamethasone, cuts the death rate of those on ventilator by a third. Something promising, or it could be another hydroxychloroquine

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think a steroid improving suppressed lung function is probably a far more reliable concept to begin with than the hydroxychloroquine debacle, which from the beginning was postulated on a pretty weird idea about this drug reducing viral shedding.

[nenjin]

Yeah, at the least the mechanism of a regular steroid (suppressed immune response, reducing inflammation) is far more well understood than the voodoo of Hydroxichloroquine.

[Iduno]

No, this is not the anti-vax stuff. This is now to the tune of like 200M people who just can't get the vaccines, not the loons who choose not to get it.

Although they are at risk because of the anti-vax assholes.

[ChairmanPoo]

Study is not yet published AFAIK. We'll see. Word is they're likely hyping things at the very least...